Extirpation Definition

Extirpation Sentence Examples

• Ziehen has noted exaltation of the jerk to follow extirpation of a cortical centre.

• Sindhia was overawed and forced to sign the treaty of Gwalior, consenting to aid in the extirpation of the Pindaris, whom he had hitherto protected.

• In the severest forms of tic doloureux complete relief has followed the extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion.

• He was bigoted, bloodthirsty and relentless, though one Turkish historian praises his humanity for having forbidden the cutting up alive of condemned persons, or the roasting of them before a slow fire; and at one time he was with difficulty dissuaded from ordering the complete extirpation of all the Christians in Turkey.

• This, however, is rather a matter of inference from the cessation of all mention of them in local records than from any definite evidence of their extirpation.